Re: http: links in the manual

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Max Nikulin writes:

> One may got no response trying to fix a link.
>
> Max Nikulin to emacs-orgmode. [PATCH] org-manual.org: Update links to
> MathJax docs. Sun, 3 Oct 2021 23:17:46 +0700.
> https://list.orgmode.org/sjcl3b$gsr$1@ciao.gmane.io
>
> In the particular case of docs.mathjax.org I am unsure if mild
> preference of http: over https: is not a mistake in the server
> configuration. I do not mind "https:" there, any variant is better
> than the old broken link.

Maybe, instead of repairing the links manually, we could think of some
code that would do this work periodically, and also check the health of
the links, running a url request on each link and returning a list of
broken links. I don't know if it is possible to do something like that
in Elisp, as I don't have much experience with web and link issues. I
think there are also external tools, like Selenium Web Driver, but my
experience with it is very limited (I use Selenium from time to time
when I want to take a screenshot of a web page).

Best regards,

Juan Manuel